The Pheasantries is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Schoolhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Pheasantries
- WRENN ID
- calm-latch-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Address
- The Pheasantries, Langwathby, CA11 8SS
- OS grid reference
- NY 562 322
- Coordinates
- 54.68317, -2.6801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pheasantries is a schoolhouse and classroom extension, now serving as an estate house for the Musgrave estate. It was likely built in the mid-18th century, with significant alterations made in the mid-19th century. The building features red sandstone rubble walls, a string course, and V-jointed quoins. Its roof is made of graduated greenslate, with coped gables and kneelers, and it has banded red sandstone chimney stacks topped with stone caps.
The structure is 2 and a half storeys tall, consisting of three bays, with a lower right two-bay extension. A prominent central Tudor-style gabled stone porch with shaped bargeboards projects from the front. The windows are stone-mullioned, with configurations of 2, 3, and 4 lights, and there are 19th-century gabled dormers. The extension features gable bargeboards, and the Musgrave coat-of-arms is displayed on the return wall, along with a truncated bellcote. At the rear, there is a stone porch and windows with chamfered surrounds.
Local climate
The Pheasantries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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